Jack Clark

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541 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 27 Mar

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Hard Fork · The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? · 27 Mar 2026 podcast

And at some point he'd like say, Jack, you've had enough computers today, you're getting weird.

And I'd be like, I'm not getting weird.

No, no, you've got to let me.

And he was like, see, being weird, get out.

I think finding a way to like budget your child's time with technology has always been the work of parents and will continue to be.

I recognize though that it's getting more ubiquitous and hard to escape.

We have a smart TV.

My toddler, she can watch Bluey and a couple of other shows, but we haven't let her have unfettered access to the YouTube algorithm.

It freaks me out.

But I see her seeing the YouTube pain on the TV, and I know at some point we're going to have to have that conversation.

So we're going to need to build pretty heavy parental controls into this system.

We serve 18s and up today, but obviously kids are smart and are going to try and get onto this stuff.

You're going to need to build a whole bunch of systems to kind of prevent children spending so much time with this.

Ursula Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea was the first book I read.

It's a book where magic comes from knowing the true name of things.

And it's also a meditation on hubris.

In this case of a person with thinking they can push magic very far.

I read it now as a technologist.

Uh-oh.

uh eric hofer the the true believer which is a book on the nature of mass movements and the psychology of what causes people to have strong beliefs which i read because i think that we're ai technologists have strong beliefs and it may be part of a strong culture that includes the word cult and so you need to understand the science and psychology behind that and finally the

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